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Modern Twist to the Legend of Frau Hitt

The German folktale of Frau Hitt has several variations, but in all of them she is the same: greedy and uncaring. Frau Hitt lived in a castle near Innsbruck, where she owned lots of land. Worked by farmers who earned very little money and respect from the Frau. One day during a time of famine, while riding her beloved white horse, she went to inspect the farms and the farmers in the fields. After blaming them for the food shortage and demanding they work harder and faster, she headed onwards to a pass where a stranger was standing in the clearing.

The stranger implored her to have pity on him and asked for some of the bread provisions she was carrying. She initially ignored him but again he implored her in the name of God. Frau Hitt, as miserly and selfish as ever, refused the poor man even a scrap of bread, instead picking up a stone from the road, gave it to the man and said "If you are truly hungry, eat this stone then."

Angrily, the hungry man cursed her by shouting "May you turn into the same stone as your heart!" As Frau Hitt crossed over the pass, a dark storm appeared. The man's curse came to light for after it had passed, Frau Hitt had gone, and in her place, stood a stone in the form of a woman. To this day, the stone outcropping of a woman can be seen near Innsbruck.

Modern Version

Frau Hitt is the wealthy CEO of FarmaTek, an agricultural group that supplies much of Germany with grains and vegetables. Renound not only over Germany and Europe but also the rest of the world, the company is highly successful and does very well on the Stock Exchange. CEO Hitt is a ruthless, selfish and greedy woman and stops at nothing to remain number one in agriculture. She embezzles large amounts of cash into offshore accounts in the Cook Islands and Bahamas, and pays just the minimum wage to her employees, who are most often migrant workers from the surrounding war-torn countries.

During a terrible economic crisis, brought on by demonstrations and strikes against the Chancellor of Germany, supermarkets and stores went through a shortage in bread and grain products. Fruit and vegetables had to be imported to make up for some independent farms going bankrupt. Frau Hitt was able to raise prices, uncaring of her struggling fellow man.

One Day, after having a meeting with her farmers to increase production, she was riding in her new white Mercedes down the rural roads towards the Autobahn. She was catching some lunch-on -- the go, while she reviewed her quarterly report. She noticed a hitchhiker standing on the side of the road with a sign "Will Work for Food." At first she paid no attention, then on second thought she decided to stop as it was clear he would work for very little money. She told her chauffeur to stop.

The car stopped, and the hitchhiker came up to her window. The chauffeur rolled down her window. The hitchhiker was very grateful and asked Frau Hitt if she was able to offer him any food for a day's work. Frau Hitt. Frau Hitt didn't want the hitchhiker to take advantage of her, so she at first declined, relishing the fact that he will beg and pled her.

Instead, the hitchhiker asked Frau Hitt, if she could spare him the rest of her sandwich. Frau Hitt laughed and gestured to the chauffeur to drive away. As they sped away down the gravel road, some stones hit the hitchhiker in the face. He was outraged and started cursing at the white Mercedes.

Years passed, and Frau Hitt's company was as successful as ever. Then one day, her secretary advises her that a young man was here to see her. Always willing to oblige any man that could do her bidding, Frau Hitt tell the secretary to bring him into her office.

Frau Hitt finds him very dashing, even with the small mysterious scar above his right eye. The young man carries a briefcase. He doesn't sit, rather he places the briefcase on her desk and opens it sharply.

Frau Hitt," he begins, "I am Jacob Stone, with Caste, Storme and Stone. It has come to our attention that you have been embezzling from your own company and be deliberately selling off your stock in a bid to cause a market frenzy."

Frau Hitt smiles and waves the accusations off, "I have done no such thing."